From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753251AbcBVTDD (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:03:03 -0500 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:39520 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752310AbcBVS7n (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:59:43 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.22,485,1449561600"; d="scan'208";a="657296596" From: Ross Zwisler To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ross Zwisler , "Theodore Ts'o" , Alexander Viro , Andreas Dilger , Andrew Morton , Dan Williams , Dave Chinner , Jan Kara , Jens Axboe , Matthew Wilcox , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: [PATCH v4 3/5] ext4: Online defrag not supported with DAX Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:59:20 -0700 Message-Id: <1456167562-28576-4-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.0 In-Reply-To: <1456167562-28576-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> References: <1456167562-28576-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Online defrag operations for ext4 are hard coded to use the page cache. See ext4_ioctl() -> ext4_move_extents() -> move_extent_per_page() When combined with DAX I/O, which circumvents the page cache, this can result in data corruption. This was observed with xfstests ext4/307 and ext4/308. Fix this by only allowing online defrag for non-DAX files. Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c index a99b010..eae5917 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -583,6 +583,11 @@ group_extend_out: "Online defrag not supported with bigalloc"); err = -EOPNOTSUPP; goto mext_out; + } else if (IS_DAX(inode)) { + ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, + "Online defrag not supported with DAX"); + err = -EOPNOTSUPP; + goto mext_out; } err = mnt_want_write_file(filp); -- 2.5.0